As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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I've never posted on the scrapbook forum before. Hmmm, might need to hang out here for awhile. I have a lot of catching up to do. I haven't started my WDW 06 or my WDW 07 MF albums. I'm feeling very overwhelmed with general family scrapbooking and my trips. Maybe I'll get some inspiration and a good swift kick in the pants every once in awhile from you all.
Anyways, I took my SIL and a good friend to Disney this past May. This trip was more about them than about me. So I didn't take pictures of everything but still managed to take 150. My SIL took 200-300 and my friend who is a better photographer took 1100. Yikes! She has them all printed and is making one heck of an album.
I, on the other hand, sifted thru my pictures and hers to come up with 125 to use. I knew going in that this would be a small album. It's a 7x7 and holds 24 pages. Before printing any pictures, I made a list of what I wanted for themes for my two-page spreads. I also knew that I wanted to use wallet size photos but those are $$. So when I was on the picture uploading site, I added a thick white border around the majority of my photos which made them reduce to a wallet size. The prints are 15 cents vs. $1.4?
So here's my plan, I'm purchasing and rifling thru my stock to find coordinating but paper fitting to the theme. I'm going to trim it all to 7x7 and basically 'wallpaper' my pages. I've already trimmed my photos leaving around 1/8" or less white with alittle more on bottom for a bit of journaling.
I'm going to a 6-midnight crop on Friday night. I plan on taping down the 'wallpaper' and throwing my pictures down. Later I'll add some titles on vellum and maybe an embellishment or two. I hope that i can get it all done. I would love to get my other two big albums done before October but I'm not sure that's possible.
Hopefully, I'll post next weekend that it's all done.
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Before printing any pictures, I made a list of what I wanted for themes for my two-page spreads. I also knew that I wanted to use wallet size photos but those are $$. So when I was on the picture uploading site, I added a thick white border around the majority of my photos which made them reduce to a wallet size. The prints are 15 cents vs. $1.4?
Great idea!! I am working on a beach layout in a 12 X 12 album and knew I wanted one 5 X 7 and 3 smaller pics and checked out the price of wallets and dumped that plan! I'm going to check out the wide border idea!
Sounds like you have a good plan in place for your album and I bet you'll get it done in no time! I also bet you've inspired a few of us to get going on our albums!
Hope you post some of your pages when you're done.
Great idea about creating your own wallet size! I'll look into that when we get back from our trip as I plan to use pics of the kids at Disney as their b'day pics for the relatives this year! Gotta love everything I learn from these boards!
Good tip about getting wallet size photos for cheap! Hope you get your album finished this weekend - I bet you will. Getting pages planned and organized takes longer than putting everything on the page.
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with it - you've got some great plans there! 
Michelle - with my step sisters!
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and dumped that plan! I'm going to check out the wide border idea!
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